Under some conditions, it can get really weird. You might see a car 100 metres above the road, or a tree in the middle of your lane.
This effect is responsible for a very large percentage of UFO reports.

On hot sunny days, black pavement gets significantly hotter than the atmospheric temperature. It heats up the air directly above it, which causes the index of refraction of the hot air to change. Even though the effect is slight, you can observe total internal reflection if you are viewing the effect from a position almost parallel to the plane of the pavement.